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1. how to get your crush to believe you love him: a guide by mike wheeler by passerine_in_jade

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   04 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Original Male Character(s)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Post-Canon
   • College
   • Love Confessions
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Mutual Pining
   • Will Byers Has a Boyfriend
   • and mike chooses now to confess. will does not take it well
   • will believes mike is straight
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • this is a romcom that just happens to begin in the middle of a tragedy
   • this fic is Mike going to any means necessary to
   • 1) figure out if he's gay
   • and 2) convince will that he loves him
   • while no sex actually happens it is discussed heavily
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • bumping it to mature as was recommended but really it isnt much of anything

   Summary

   “Mike, you're not in love with me.”

   The look he gets back is somewhere between frustrated and sad, and Will holds out a hand before Mike can protest further. “No, Mike, trust me. It isn’t love, it’s jealousy."

   “That’s the same—”

   “Not romantically. You're just, you're jealous that I have someone else in my life. You're jealous that I'm not pining over you anymore, you're jealous that there is someone out there who can compete with you for how much I care about him.” Because this is true. It is obvious. And Will is right and that will be have to be enough. “And it's sweet. I'm — It makes me happy, to know you care that much, that you want me in your life so badly.

   "But you don't love me, Mike. You just don't."

   -

   Mike visits Will in college with a confession. It isn't taken very well.

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